21282001https://dlas.uncg.edu/petitions/petition/21282001North CarolinaStokesCounty001820Superior000114North Carolina Department of Archives and History, Raleigh, North CarolinaJames Larimore seeks a divorce from his wife Catharine, a woman with "abandoned" habits who engaged in "adulterous intercourse with diverse individuals." He accused her of having sex with a mulatto man named William Goings during the night she sat up with the dying wife of a neighbor; he accused her of having an affair with one of his slaves in their kitchen; and he accused her of having illicit connections with a white man named Joseph Pane. In addition, she had "gone off to the State of Indianna."AdulteryInterracial socializing Abandonment